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That last panel is truefacts, folks. I took some artistic license, but otherwise it’s 100% true.

As if astronauts on the ISS didn’t have enough problems with microgravity induced maladies such as headaches, bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and even blindness, they can’t even enjoy food thanks to stuffy heads. Their solution? A tactic near and dear to our own Nadir’s heart, and sort of platonically close to my own: Bring on the spice. Horseradish was valued, in particular, for its supposed sinus-clearing properties*.

By the way, nothing made me lose my appetite for cocktail shrimp more than the thought of dried shrimp encrusted with dried cocktail sauce. Ugh.

*This is at best only technically true, and at worst, fiction. More on this next time.

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Great post. If we ever build rotating space stations in orbit, it will be interesting to reflect on this era of manned spaceflight and all the complications that zero g imposed.

I’ve read that astronauts on the Apollo missions wished they could just stop eating during the duration, or rather eating and what inevitably comes out after eating.

http://twitter.com/spaceguy87 Ben H.

Your last panel made me wince quite a bit. I am an ISS flight controller and one of the worst things that can happen up there is a leak of the ammonia cooling fluid from the external systems into the pressurized cabin. It would kill the astronauts if they did not react quickly.

Lachouette

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Nice, I’ve never heard of that before. Interesting links!

MackanGyver

Read through entire archive, I enjoyed it, even though I am not your target audience (or perhaps I am exactly your target audience) since I can not shake away the belief in God. (not fundamental just so you know, but enough to like the rituals in church).

http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

Tabasco is only good for Bloody Marys. Give those space cadets some habanero salsa!